I took a basic chord progression using synth samples from an old project and made a big arrangement around it. The main focus was using Ableton Live's 'Beat' warp mode options, which I never tinkered with until this week. Altering the transient 'preserve' and 'envelope' values created very interesting percussive effects. I used that on the bulk of the synths and even turning white noise into a hi-hat with it. Lots of other fun. I also layered some pitched kicks for polyrhythms and other fun stuff.

Total time: 5.5 hours

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Hi Everyone,

I wrote a lot this week but kept coming back to this guitar part.

Thanks for listening!

Aamir

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i love music wowowow

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What one letter can do! This one is laden with impressions from the last week, and the last years, I'll leave you to it!

Leaned into the techno beat again, and tried to balance my voice against it. Three distinct parts with a bass line that connects it. Hope you like it :)

Harmonically, it is using notes from an E Lydian scale, but the root note is actually D#, I'm not sure what I'm doing but it sounded weird using the E as root.

› Lyrics‹ Lyrics

L is for Light

L is for Life

L is for Labour

L is for Loathe

L is for Laughter

L is for Lust

L is for Limits

L is for Loneliness

L is for Luck

L is for Love

L is for Longing

L is for Loss

Light, Life, Labour, Loathe

Laughter, Lust, Limits, Loneliness

Luck, Love, Longing, Loss

Luck, Love, Longing, Loss

Luck, Love, Longing, Loss

Luck, Love, Longing, Loss

Luck, Love, Luck, Love

Luck, Love, Luck, Love

Luck, Love, Luck, Love

Luck, Love, Luck, Love

Light

Life

Labour

Loathe

Laugther

Lust

Limits

Loneliness

Luck

Love

Longing

Loss

Loving self

Loving self

Loving self

Light, luck, loving self

Light, luck, loving self

Light, luck, loving self

Light, luck, loving self

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Another week, another *done for now* track.  Still have a lot further to go, but this year has been mostly about becoming more familiar with my tools and building a back log of material and demos.  I might switch gears in the coming weeks to revisiting stuff from throughout this year and honing them further.  Maybe record some live drums and stuff.

Wrote this on the M8 and added some guitar.

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Where would you go wearing your rat king necktie?

› Production Notes‹ Production Notes

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Produced in Reaper

Length: 2m43s

BPM: 75

Genre: Dark Jazz

Plugins

- Virtuosity Drums

- Haunted Guitar Lite

- Meatbass

- Darksichord 3 Lite

- Creepy Piano 3 Lite

- Black Metal Keys

FX

- Added Valhalla Supermassive to everything

- Dunked the master in Arturia Tape Mellow-Fi

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"Game Over" vibes echoing through a haunted house... Feeling more like the game than the player this week though. Feeling little bit of righteous schadenfreude this week, so I channeled that mischievous venomous joy through this piece. Got really rushed near the end though with cleaning the piece up, panning, making the mix gel together, etc. Not the most balanced, but this piece was one that demanded a bit more attention I think. Percussion a bit too wacky maybe, could have used some sleeping on and some second listens. That being said, groovy.

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Yet another single-chord piece with vocals mixed in headphones. Not much time to complete, traveling again.

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Welcome to the disaster expedition

Move faster

There is no time to master anything anymore

I can see the corruption

Changing how people function

This delivish contraption, it will claim us all

120 BPM 4/4, C-major. Made entirely in Renoise. Vocals recorded and processed with Roland E-4. Drums made with Polyplex. All other synths Multipoly. No AI used in any part of the process. For this year every cover art is a photo I took.

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